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Subject: [ROOTS-L] Memories 'Round The Mill
Let¡¯s Go To The Hop
The year must have been 1948 when we started going to Cotillions in School and Church Gyms to the sock hops. It was called ¡°GOING TO THE HOP!¡± The reason we could dance on the gym floors because every one removed their shoes and danced in their sock feet.
You did not just ¡°GO TO THE HOP!¡± It took a lot of thought and time spent shopping for the prettiest, brightest colored socks you could find and you purchased two pair alike. One pair for your date and one pair for your self.
1948 was the year girls started having lots of clothes. The girls wore those beautiful colored satin full skirts almost to the ankle with matching satin slippers and those beautiful white peasant blouses.
Boys wore penny loafers with rolled up pant legs on their skintight blue jeans or gabardine men¡¯s dress slacks. The slacks had to be dry cleaned at Compton¡¯s Dry Cleaners and that cost 75 cents. Kids and a lot of adults only made $1per hour. That was in the days when your mother starched and ironed all your clothes including you¡¯re under wear, blue jeans, sheets, and pillowcases. No wonder we sit up so straight! Our shirts were starched so stiff so we could not slough in school.
The big love of my life that year was BEVERLY BELSKY. Beverly¡¯s dad CHARLIE BELSKI and his brothers MILO and JOE BELSKI had a Polka Band that played nearly every Saturday night. Charlie Belski had a Band with the BIG BAND Sound. Charlie parents use to take BEVERLY, her twin sister Charlotte Charlie¡¯s baby sister LILLY BELSKI and I to dances all over the state.
¡°GOING TO THE HOP¡± usually mint doing every thing you could possibly do to get the judges to notice your socks. Getting first prize at the ¡°SOCK HOP¡± was like winning a GOLD METAL at the Olympics.
I remember going to a sock hop held at St. Mary Catholic Church fellowship hall with BEVERLY & CHARLOTTE, LILLY BELSKI, RICHARD KUNTZ and a couple of other fellows who went to that Church School.
We also had ¡°SOCK HOPS¡± at Friday night at our teen town above MULVEYS Hardware store. The big thing on campass was who are you taking to the hop this Friday night and have you found and bought your ¡°SOCK¡± yet? And at the dance they always did the strole or the strut past the judges. Kick your feet high as you go past.
In the 1940¡¯s and early 1950¡¯s there was a whole lot of sock hopping ¡¯Round The Mill town of Yukon, Oklahoma. I also have many memories ¡¯round the mill of my old pal EARL ED NOVAKS great loves of his teen years RUE DONNA JACOBSEN, CARLEEN CONE and JANET THOMAS. Those were the days of our lives. I have always been proud to say I was a Yukon Boy! And I do not know if you have noticed lately but the Yukon Girls are still beautiful.
Some of our old gang included Earl Ed Novak, Fenton Ramey, Jim Mc Daniels, Jim Wheatley, Mike Pugh, Shirley Line, La Veta Williams, Patsy Kolar and Gary Johnson. The girls that were members of the ¡°DIRTY FIVE¡¯ were Sally Pribyl, Rue Donna Jacobsen, Carlene Cone, Martha Mann, and Janet Thomas. The reason the guys referred to those girls the dirty five is because they secretly smoked in the days when smoking was not lady like. Smoking was a macho thing.
By Paul L.Odle, Sr.
Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center
P.O. Box 849
Lawton, Oklahoma 73502
1-580-354-3287 or 1-580-512-4767
Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com
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